Anthony's Birthday At Disneyland!

The end of the day







Micky Mouse's House


MICKEY MOUSE!!!!


OMG, HE'S THE GREATEST!!!!!


Going on Dumbo With Grammie

Awe, what big boys they are!

Sissy & Domi

In Minnie's House

Always the oposite!
Ones either and happy & the other's sad or vice versa


PIRATES!



"I love Eeyore!"

The Ones Who Started It All!


We're almost there, YEAH!



The Cousins

Christmas Parades

Anthony & Sarah were in 2 Christmas Parades last Saturday. We had some family come out for the first one in Yucaipa.

It was TONS of Fun!!!!

Here are some pics

Dominic, Devin, Mom & Aunt Vonnie




Grandma & Mom watching the parade


Cool Trolly

Cool PT Cruiser

SGMS Band!

Branden in Front, Anthony in Back

Branden & Anthony

My Pretty Sarah

This was before the night parade

Aunt Vonnie & Mom

Grandma & Pookie

Video of the night parade

WOW WOW WOW

Anthony & Adriana were elected to play on the Spring Select teams for soccer this year!!!
Then last night I spoke with a friend of ours who informed me that he elected Anthony to continue on and play in the Regional Playoffs!
I am so proud of my soccer kids!!!!

Domi's 3!

We had a very quiet family party for Dominic. I was in LOTS of pain that day! My mom made a full on Turkey dinner and we had James, Gail, Devin & Sarah over for dinner, cake & presents.
Here we are blowing out his candles on his cake

Here's the Birthday Boy!

School Updates

Well, Anthony has been doing REALLY good in school!
He has a 3.4gpa and is really blowing Jose and I away!
He came to us last week and told us about an oral report that he had to do this week.
So Sunday night we helped review and prep him.
Jose went downstairs to the computer with him and gave him pointers, etc.
Well, Monday Anthony went to school and to his surprise wasn't called to do his report.
He came home and told us and was explaining how this one boy got an A on his report.
Anthony was telling us that this kid is REALLY smart and going on about how he doesn't think that he could ever get an A on a report like this.
Well, Wednesday he came home and informed us about his report.
He was called on today, presented and waited for his grade.
He got an A- *WOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOO*
We are so very proud of him!

Adriana is doing MUCH better than Jose and I expected.
We met with her teacher Thursday evening to go over her progress and Mrs. Riley said that she is doing very well. For the most part she has all 3's (interpreted into a B).
She has some things that she needs to stay ontop of,but for the most part, she is doing really well!

I have the most awesome kids EVER!!!!

Honor Roll!

Anthony got his first Jr. High report card.
Look....

He got...

4- A's

2-B's

1-C

Woo Hoo

It's been over a month!

I have been so busy lately, I have forgotten to update everyone with my kiddos.
Well, tomorrow is Halloween, and we finally decided to carve our pumpkin and turn it into a "Jack O' Lantern".
Dominic wanted NOTHING to do with it. He says it scares him.
So the kids had at it, all 3 of the older one...YES, I am including Jose!

Pictures!

Here are the soccer pictures from this year.
Anthony, Cyclones. I am TEAM MOM!
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Adriana, Purple Flames. I am TEAM MOM!

My baby's Jr. High Pic. Isn't he the handsomest!

Monster TRUCKS!

We took the kids to see the Monster Trucks.
We had a BLAST!!!
Here are pics...
James, being a dork


The BIG BIG BIG Elephant

The Boys looking at the elephant

Adriana being an Ice Cream Head...LOL

The boys waiting VERY patiently for the monster trucks

The BIG corn dog

Woa, that's BIG

Devin made a friend

One of the many monster trucks

This was the girl truck....SHE ROCKED!

Woa Buddy!

Me and the sunglass boys, it protected their eyes from the dust.

Look, it's McQueen! OMG, you should have seen Dominic!

OORAH! Marines Car, AWESOME!

So Much For That

Well, we planned on going to the beach a few weekends ago (see my last post), but both Anthony & Adriana had birthday parties to go to.

So, instead we decided to take a trip to Los Angeles.

We go there every so often to go to the Guatemalan Bakery ~ Delicioso!~ We get a bit of Jose's roots & teach the kids about the country everytime we go. Has definately turned into a family tradition, and am very happy that we have found this place so that we can instill Jose's roots into these Guatemalan kids!

So here are some pics from that

A little story behind this trip;

We decided to take Jose's car to save on gas. Well, before we left, we said a prayer (as we usually do). We started driving and noticed there was a bit of a bumpy-ness to the car.

Well, as we drove faster, it stopped. So we figured maybe something was bit off or maybe a bit of air might need to be put into the front tires.

So we continued to drive, getting onto the freeway.

Well once we got up to going over 70 mph we noticed the bumping again.

Jose decided to just drive straight out to L.A. w/out stopping, since it wasn't too bad.

Well, after we ate & got back into the car and got ready to drive back home, we noticed it REALLY BAD!

So we looked for a gas station to put gas and air into the tires.

Good 'ol Los Angeles, Let me tell you!

NO ONE has an air pump that works, the hose isn't cut off or available.

We went to 4 different gas stations before we finally found one w/ a working air hose. THANK GOD I LIVE WHERE I DO!

So while Jose is putting air into a tire, we hear a CRASH!

Jose went to the back of the car to see what happened.

There was an accident on the corner of the intersection. People came out of the woodworks to see what happened. It was really sad, but unbelievable how some people react w/ being nosey or just plain don't care or help to assist those injured.

So, we took care of the air & put in gas and decided to get the flock out of town.

While driving, the tires just weren't going good.

We stopped 3 times on the way home, but just couldn't figure out what happened.

Finally home, get the kids ready and take them to thier parties.

Jose & I decided to go to James' to use the jack and look at the driveline & whatever else.

Well, while he was lifting the car, he dicided to put something behind the rear driver side tire.

Lo and Behold, he saw the issue.

Ran into the house to get me and show me...

Our back driverside tire's inside tread was completely gone and had a bubble the size of a soccer ball inside the tire!

The Lord sent Angels our way that day! We were just in a shock!

So that's my story, of how the Lord does watch over his children!